Executives

Carlos Tavares' next frontier

CEO Carlos Tavares has restored PSA Group to profitability and pushed it beyond its traditional European focus to global markets. (REUTERS)
October 24, 2016 05:00 AM
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Tracking Tavares
A quick view of Carlos Tavares' career
  • 1981: Joined Renault as test engineer
  • 1996-98: Director of platform strategy, advanced engineering, Renault
  • 1998: Became a vice president of Renault
  • 2004: Joined Nissan as vice president in charge of global product planning
  • 2005-09: Nissan executive vice president in charge of corporate strategy and control, product planning, design and programs
  • 2009-11: Nissan executive vice president, chairman of the management committee/Americas
  • 2011-13: COO, Renault
  • 2014-present: Chairman and CEO, PSA

The man who could bring France's largest automaker back to the U.S. after an absence of more than 25 years is a Portuguese executive with high-performance gasoline running in his veins.

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